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[Center for American Progress] Time for Stabilization, Stimulus, Recovery, and Growth: Michael Ettlinger is Vice President for Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress. To read his reports and analysis and those of other members of his team, please go to the Economy page of our website.

[Truthout - All Articles] t r u t h o u t | Part III: A Pro-Growth, Progressive Economic Agenda:     Long-Term Progressive Growth: True long-term economic success requires both "a growing middle class and rising living standards." As Ettlinger points out, "The economic weakness of recent years was papered over by personal debt underpinned by artificially high valuation of homes and other assets....A lesson to be learned from this period is that economic growth that is not buttressed by growing middle-class incomes is illusory - a house of cards bound to collapse." Thus, CAP has released a Progressive Growth plan aimed at creating long-term opportunity through green recovery, implementing health care reform and labor law reform, as well as enabling all Americans access to a quality education.

[Center for American Progress] Restoring Confidence in the American Economy: The serious economic threats facing our economy are more urgent than this year’s budget deficit, but we also need start quickly to restore financial discipline and the public’s confidence in government. Even as we are spending more in the short term, we must make a serious commitment to scrub the budget of inefficient and ineffective programs and tax incentives, make tough choices among competing priorities, and address the sustainability of Medicare and Social Security—the looming fiscal challenge in the coming decades—in the context of reform of the social safety net to provide retirement and health care security.

[CNSNews.com Headlines] CNSNews.com - Emanuel Dodges Question on Postponing Income Tax ...: “You could repeal the high-end tax cuts without hampering economic recovery,” Ettlinger told CNSNews.com, “it all depends on how you spend the money.” He added “that’s something that people miss, if you spend the money wisely, .

[Center for American Progress] The Climb Gets Steeper: Michael Ettlinger is Vice President of Economic Policy at the Center for American Progress. For more information on our policy recommendations highlighted in this column please go to the Economy page and Energy and Environment page of .

[Trust Debt Consolidation Loans] Helping the Economy Recover - ASK THE EXPERT | Trust Debt ...: How will this spending and investment help the economy recover? Michael Ettlinger of the Center for American Progress adderesses these questions in the latest installment of CAP’s ASK THE EXPERT series.

[Wonk Room] Wonk Room » Unemployment Hits 14-Year High, U.S. Economy Has Shed ...: CAP’s Michael Ettlinger noted that “the best stimulus proposals can meet the overlapping objectives of boosting demand, stopping job losses, helping those most in need during bad times, and starting to make investments that have .

[MediaMouse.org: Grand Rapids, Michigan News and Independent Media] Media Mouse: National and International Headlines for November 7 ...: Michael Ettlinger: "The next Treasury Secretary faces quite a challenge. We have financial markets bouncing all over the place.

[Moving Up] Moving Up » Blog Archive » Income Up, Poverty Rates the Same ...: [...] For more on the new numbers, see these takes from Katie Campbell at PPI and Michael Ettlinger here at [...]

[Matthew Yglesias] Matthew Yglesias » Mike Pence: Pence was also the guy who pushed for captured Iraqi documents to be put on the internet so bloggers could research them and come up with better rationales for why we were there. Those included some plans for components of nuclear weapons, conveniently already written in Arabic.

[Consider the Evidence] Links: September 2008 « Consider the Evidence: What does it take to define away the statistics showing superior economic performance under Democratic presidents?, by Jeffrey Frankel. Obama recovery across red, yellow, and blue states, by Charles Franklin .

[WSJ.com: Real Time Economics] Real Time Economics : Paulson and Bernanke: Crisis Dream Team?: Michael Ettlinger of the left-leaning Center for American Progress argued that as a “creature of Wall Street,” Paulson may be too focused on large investors. Meanwhile, Brad DeLong, an economist at the University of California at .

[The Nation: All Weblogs] Taking On Poverty and Inequality: During the American Revolution we were dependent on foreign governments (France) for arms, money, some troops, and their navy. It was felt that we needed an industrial base to support our national defense and create an independent, self sustaining national economy.

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